Bug#809679: iceweasel: enlarge search box
Len Huppe
lhuppe at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 19:23:10 UTC 2016
Package: iceweasel
Version: 43.0.2-1~bpo80+1
Severity: normal
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Title
Icons in the Search Box drop-down are too small.
Problem
The icons in the Search Box drop-down are very small, even smaller than the
Toolbar icons. I do not have the best vision and on bad days the poor
resolution on these icons makes them difficult to identify. Someone with vision
impairment may have much greater difficulty. Also, when there are multiple
icons from the same domain it gets confusing. For example I have two virtually
identical icons for the Debian website. One is for “Debian packages” and
the other is for “Debian website (en).”
Action Taken
On bad days I get closer to the screen to identify the icons. In the case of
identical icons I do a mouseover to see the name of the icon displayed in the
“Search for … with:” bar of the drop-down menu.
Current Behavior
Typing in the Search Box activates the drop-down menu which displays a
combination of text messages and icons. The icons are displayed in a grid
layout without any text to identify them.
Suggested Behavior
Short Term: Add a text identifier and make the icons larger and easier to make
out. I consider the add-on Google App Launcher by Mahesh Asolkar to be a good
example of icons well done.
Long Term: Perhaps it is time to add a Search Box tab to the Preferences page
where the user can customize various behaviors of the Search Bar. For example,
icon display or list display. Same tab or a new tab. etc.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: ADB Helper
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/adbhelper at mozilla.org
Status: user-disabled
Name: AdBlock for YouTube™
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid1-q4sG8pYhq8KGHs at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: user-disabled
Name: Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/elemhidehelper at adblockplus.org.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Facebook service
Status: enabled
Name: Firefox OS 2.2 Simulator
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/fxos_2_2_simulator at mozilla.org
Status: user-disabled
Name: Gmail service
Status: enabled
Name: Gmail™ Notifier Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid1-sqmEAwSoa3FZPc at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Google App Launcher
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/@gglappbtn.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Google+ service
Status: enabled
Name: iCloud™ Notifier
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid1-iqxESwZsa2GZTp at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Light blue FF4 default extended theme
Status: enabled
Name: LinkedIn service
Status: enabled
Name: New Tab Homepage
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{66E978CD-981F-47DF-AC42-E3CF417C1467}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: NoScript
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Open Bookmarks in New Tab
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/openbookmarkintab at piro.sakura.ne.jp.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: TinEye Reverse Image Search
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/tineye at ideeinc.com.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: uBlock Origin
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/uBlock0 at raymondhill.net.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Video Downloader professional
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/ffext_basicvideoext at startpage24.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: YouTube Video and Audio Downloader
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/feca4b87-3be4-43da-a1b1-137c24220968 at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled
Name: iTunes Application Detector
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
Package: rhythmbox-plugins
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii gnome-shell 3.14.4-1~deb amd64 graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii iceweasel 43.0.2-1~bpo amd64 Web browser based on Firefox
ii rhythmbox-plug 3.1-1 amd64 plugins for rhythmbox music playe
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 4.4+b1
ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.3
ii libasound2 1.0.28-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-2
ii libffi6 3.1-2+b2
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3
ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.3-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii procps 2:3.3.9-9
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages iceweasel recommends:
ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.4.4-2
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.4.4-2
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn fonts-lmodern <none>
pn fonts-stix | otf-stix <none>
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-3
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u1
pn mozplugger <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html f6a4351c69179af4293e4a82412e0244 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/iceweasel/profile/bookmarks.html f6a4351c69179af4293e4a82412e0244'
-- no debconf information
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